Ranjeev C. Dubey reports: Wheels spin within wheels in every society and every form of government – capitalism, socialism, communism, theocracy, whatever – and one doesn’t always know who pulls which string. What Radiagate has done is show us how ministers have been selected in India in at least one case. Does the public bedlam…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Privacy fears for phone data
Justin Norrie reports: Police would have access to the telephone records of missing people even when there was no suspicion of criminal activity under a plan that civil liberties activists say could lead to “gross invasions of privacy”. A federal bill to change surveillance laws would give state and federal police the power to inspect…
Police DNA retention lawful in spite of human rights court ruling, says NI High Court
Northern Ireland’s High Court of Justice has ruled that police retention of a 14 year old boy’s DNA was not illegal, despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that the blanket data retention policy conflicts with human rights law. The Court said that it could not follow the ruling from the European Court of…
UK: Politics and Private Life: the resignation of Alan Johnson
Even public figures should have some level of privacy concerning their private lives – or so I’ve often argued on this blog. What about their families, though? Can the life of a relative of a public figure be considered fair game or should their privacy be treated identically to the privacy of everyday private figures?…